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On This Day (October 12th) Multiple Choice - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 8 times
- The average score is 7 of 15
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1915 – World War I: Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium. What was her occupation ? | Nurse | 83%
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| 1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in a bomb in a hotel in which UK city ? | Brighton | 67%
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| 1968 – Which African country becomes independent from Spain ? | Equatorial Guinea | 67%
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| 2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO and is immediately followed by which country ? | Israel | 67%
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| 1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from which company ? | Lockheed | 67%
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| 633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. Where was Hatfield Chase ? | South Yorkshire | 67%
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| 1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of which city comes to an end ? | Athens | 50%
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| 1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev does what at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion ? | Pounds his shoe on a desk | 50%
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| 1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of which planet ? | Venus | 50%
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| 1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, but where ? | Bahamas | 33%
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| 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at a children's hospital in which city ? | Boston, USA | 33%
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| 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the White House. What was it known as before ? | Executive Mansion | 17%
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| 2019 – The Hard Rock Hotel, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20 in which city ? | New Orleans | 17%
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| 1773 – America's first of what type of building opens ? | Insane Asylum | 0%
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| 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to do what ? | Parachute from a balloon | 0%
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